Thermal-catalytic gas processing is integral to many current industrial processes. Ever-
increasing demands on conversion and energy efficiencies are a strong driving force for the …

Thermoelectric generator, which converts heat into electrical energy, has great potential to
power portable devices. Nevertheless, the efficiency of a thermoelectric generator suffers …

A common misconception is that the irradiation of solids with energetic electrons and ions
has exclusively detrimental effects on the properties of target materials. In addition to the …

The unique plasma-specific features and physical phenomena in the organization of
nanoscale soild-state systems in a broad range of elemental composition, structure, and …

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) without and with adsorbed silver nanoparticles
(Ag-NPs), are used to detect acetone vapour. MWCNTs are grown on SiO 2/Si substrates …

This paper summarizes some of the essential aspects of silicon‐nanowire growth and of
their electrical properties. In the first part, a brief description of the different growth …

The purpose of this review is to provide non-specialists with a basic understanding of the
information micro-Raman Spectroscopy (μRS) may yield when this characterization tool is …

The recent rise of semiconductor nanowires opens new opportunities for realizing high
efficiency photovoltaic devices at low cost due to the unique one-dimensional structure with …

Research on silicon nanowires has developed rapidly in recent years. This can best be
inferred from the sharply increasing number of publications in this field. In 2008, more than …

Nanoscale inorganic materials such as quantum dots (0-dimensional) and one-dimensional
(1D) structures, such as nanowires, nanobelts and nanotubes, have gained tremendous …